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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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